Recipes

I have been making caramels like crazy here in preparation of heading out to the Farmer’s Market and once again I have run out of vanilla extract. The local market here sells little dinky bottles of vanilla extract for nearly 8 bucks and I’d have to drive an hour to Costco to get a decent price and by then I’ve wasted all those savings on gas. What a conundrum for a cheapskate like me! At the same time, I pulled out an oldish bag of vanilla beans and was heart broken to see they’d gone stale. I can’t cut those…

I was perusing the internet this morning to get inspiration for a blog post. This morning it was a bit depressing. Turns out the IRS (of all things) is training their workers with AR-15s. Those are assault rifles people. Why does the IRS need assault rifles? Are they going to shoot us for not paying our taxes? I didn’t really want to write about this on a lovely sunday morning so I moved on. Next I found that Kraft’s Mac and Cheese has to be labeled in the UK to explain that it has GMOs and any potential harm that…

This is awesome. There are 492 meals you can make in a jar. I’m definitely going to use these. Imagine how easy it would be to just go to your cupboard and grab a jar of pre-put together from scratch soup, put some water in it and microwave it. As easy as a cup of Ramen noodles or a can of chili or whatever, but healthy and so much cheaper! http://www.budget101.com/frugal/convenience-mixes-181/

Making homemade ice cream is so easy and so much fun. Well, it does take a little bit of exercise if you make it how we do with an authentic 1920s antique hand crank machine. However, you can cheat and use an electric machine. We don’t think it tastes nearly as good, but it’s still way better than store bought. Here’s the recipe we use for basic vanilla: 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 3/4 cup sugar a dollop of vanilla (probably like a tbsp) a pinch of kosher salt Put it in and let it stir stir…

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